Do they talk like this? At < www.lewrockwell.com/cummings/cummings29.html > there is a very interesting piece by Richard Cummings about the CIA and publishing; agents and operations are named. At the top of the article is this quote. ‘We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications […]
[…] history is known to Mowlam is not revealed in her memoirs. Nor does Mowlam respond to the speculation in Julia Langdon’s biography of her that she had CIA connections of her own. Hennessy History is the business of Peter Hennessy, but when asked to give the James Cameron Memorial Lecture to inquiring young journalism […]
[…] amateur an operation and he listed 14 points which indicated it was unlikely I had any involvement with the KGB. Bill Colby (former Director of the CIA) and ex-CIA officer Philip Agee also agreed it would not be possible to say that the tradecraft in my case was exclusive to the KGB. The […]
[…] there would have been no Bloody Sunday. As I’ve explained elsewhere, the genesis of the Provisional IRA lies in the attempts by Fianna Fail (and possibly the CIA) to create right-wing death squads to neutralise the then Official IRA leadership.(19) However, the PIRA were transformed into a significant force by an inept state repression […]
[…] Independent of 23 June 1993, commented that ‘she stood by him loyaly, convinced that he was the victim of an international plot involving double agents and the CIA.’ Well, something like that. Mrs Nixon’s death was announced only a week after Channel 4 TV’s Dispatches series broadcast a Barbara Newman documentary, ‘The Key to […]
[…] yet the aircraft used are unsuitable, and must be spe cially modified (often heavily modified) for the missions. We are told that the pilots and crew were CIA staffers. Well, CIA’s field staff at that time numbered a few thousand, world-wide, for all missions. Flying missions from carriers is dangerous enough, requiring the highest […]
[…] intelligence agents illegal, West wrote an article in The Times condemning the BlochFitzgerald and Verrier books for publishing ‘names ‘ . He also cited the case of CIA officer Richard Walsh who was assassinated in Athens in the late seventies following, it is claimed, his naming by Philip Agee. In actual fact, this is […]
[…] In fact as his evidence often shows, domestic elements needed no encouragement from abroad. This is not to deny the proven murderous capabilities of NATO and/or the CIA, but rather to point out they are an all too easy target, and that the attribution needs to be specifically proved in each case. For such […]
[…] American academic writes a long piece bemoaning the inability of the US intelligence services to accurately predict world events. The latest example is from Allen Goodman (ex CIA) in Foreign Policy, Winter 1984/85. It’s the usual catalogue of disasters, and the usual catalogue of ignorance and self-deception. These academics are always either surprised or […]
[…] so complicated and so much bigger than they would have needed for the purpose of providing a pretext for assaults on Afghanistan and Iraq. The discovery that CIA Director at the time, George Tenet, ‘forgot’ about two meetings with George Bush just before 9/11, one lasting most of the day, in Texas, leads Henshall […]
